My day started off with a bang today. I got up at 6 as usual to take Amelie for a walk, and she was so tired and so cozy in my room that she didn't want to go. Usually I only take her out for about 15 minutes on Tuesday and Thursday morning because I don't have enough time to take her for a long walk and then get ready to go to class. Today, however, it took almost 10 minutes just to get her to the field where we walk (and where she's allowed to poop) because she didn't want to move. So we only walked a little way out into the field before we turned around to head back home. On our way back, we came across a dog that was wearing a big blue light, which kinda freaked Amelie out a little bit. I had her in my hand and was putting her leash on to avoid any problems when this other dog decided that he needed to come and attack her. He came running full speed from behind his owner and took her out at the knees. She fell over and went tumbling down a hill away from the road. She wasn't mad because it wasn't my fault and Amelie didn't do anything, but holy shit! It was way too early for me to coherently think in German and I just didn't even know what to say. It was really awkward.

Then, on the way to class this morning, I got the dirtiest looks from this woman on the U-Bahn. The seats are always set up so that on each side of the aisle there is a group of 4, with 2 seats side-by-side and facing the other 2. Anyway, she was sitting in one of the 2 aisle seats and the other 3 seats were empty, so I went to sit in the window seat that was opposite her. Her legs were crossed and taking up all the space between the seats and she didn't seem to want to move, so I stepped over her a little bit and excused myself. As I was sitting down in my seat she kept looking me up and down with this ridiculous glare in her eyes, and she continued to do it after I sat down. I wanted to punch her in the face. Seriously, lady?! WTF?! I didn't do or say anything wrong/stupid, I wasn't wearing funny clothes, nothing happened. She was just a bitch, I guess. But I still wanted to punch her.

After class I went back to the store that I think I lost my phone in just to double check if someone had turned it in yet, but no such luck. I know that I dropped it in that store, so someone just kept it. Bastards. Esther has another old cell phone to give me so that I don't have to buy one, and we're going to find out if I can transfer the balance on my pre-paid sim card to a new card. I hope so, because if not that really sucks. Hopefully it will all be figured out before this weekend is over, because I've opted not to go anywhere new/far away without a phone this weekend, and I don't want this to have to continue for very long.

When I got home from class today, Pauline was already home. Apparently she never went to Maria's because she had a slight fever this morning, and Esther kept her at home all day. Well, I guess the better way to say it is that Pauline was with Esther all day. They went to Ikea and did a little shopping and had lunch there, then they came home and took a nap. As exhausted as she was, though, Pauline still didn't actually sleep during her nap. She sits in her bed playing with toys and looking at books and talking/singing to herself for a couple of hours, and then tells us how well she slept. It's really cute.

Pauline gave me the fattest dead leg today, too. I was sitting on the floor in Gustav's room while they were playing with puzzles, and Pauline kept running across the room to jump over my lap and land with her belly against the sofa. Well, unfortunately, one time she tripped and her bent knee went straight into the side of my thigh. It was one of those situations where it hurts really bad, but you're just so shocked that you can't help but laugh. At least she didn't get hurt, though, because as tired as she was that would have been miserable for everyone.

On the bright side, Amelie doesn't seem to be having stomach problems any more. She kept having problems in the afternoon, and her stomach would growl really loudly. She wasn't eating anything, and every time I took her out she spent the entire time eating grass and then clearing it from her system, one way or the other. But she ate dinner last night, and she ate breakfast and dinner today, and her system seems to be pretty much back to normal. She does have some wicked gas, though. That made last night tons of fun.

Tomorrow morning Jette is coming over again and she's going to spend most of the day here with Pauline. I have to get up earlier than usual to walk Amelie to make sure that I'm back and ready before Jette gets here. I'd also like to go to the market in Frechen at some point tomorrow to see if I can buy some yams. I don't get to have Thanksgiving this year, so I think it would be fun if I could make a little Thanksgiving feast here with the family. We'll see how it goes.